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Gen VII: Pokémon Sun and Moon (New info Post #5834)
- Thread starter Karxrida
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Is Pokémon Z confirmed yet?
Almost. We don't know for sure, but we highly suspect that there will be some sort of Pokemon Z coming.
Now that I'm thinking about it a little more I might have been a bit premature in my thought that Gen 6.5 = G7 simply because of Magiana's appearance. What might be likely, and specifically because of its mythical status, that Magiana is akin to the Generational Mythicals like Mew, Celebi, Jirachi, Shaymin, and Victini. I did always find it odd that Gen 6 didn't have a 100 Stat Mythicical in its code.
This probably hints at 6.5 but nothing else. Well at least we'll get Zygarde formes and a good number of new Megas. . . Maybe even a few new pokemon if Magiana is setting a trend.
This probably hints at 6.5 but nothing else. Well at least we'll get Zygarde formes and a good number of new Megas. . . Maybe even a few new pokemon if Magiana is setting a trend.
What if it is something completely out of the box like Gen 6.25!?
Cresselia~~
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I guess we are constantly being reminded that kids play this game too...
How'd that be out of the box? If stepping up half a Gen means adding new Pokémon (as defined by Dex entries), new moves and accessing a new region, while still being confined to the previous generation, a quarter-step up would mean adding half that. That would be new formes (but not new Pokémon) and expanded movepools for old Pokémon, and new areas in an old region. Essentially, what we've got every gen since Gen III.
I didn't quite catch that connection until now, though.
This IS a kids game...
It's an all-ages game, whose primary demographic happens to be children. Bit of a difference.
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There's a slight difference between target audience and actual audience...
This made me laugh. Pokemon is aimed at most age groups., you get new gamers who are the younger ones and then the ones who have been playing since they were young...There's a slight difference between target audience and actual audience...
That also reminds me of this:
I literally met like a good third of my friends as an undergrad in college thanks to Pokemon Heart Gold and the Pokewalker.That also reminds me of this:
Hey everyone, take this with a grain of salt, but there MIGHT have been a Pokemon Z leak on Neogaf! http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=196196576&postcount=7205
According to this leaker, we wouldn't be getting a Pokemon Z, but instead, a Pokemon Rainbow o_O. EDIT: Granted this is a codename. It could still be called Z lol. Also, this would mean that its a fall game, possibly the 3DS's swansong before the NX.
Normally I'd call BS on this, but leaking on Neogaf is pretty different than other sites. If you get caught lying there, you end up getting permabanned! So I mean, for all we know this could be someone account suicide, but I'd put this as more credible than the average rumor at least, especially considering this site's track record with accurate leaks.
Now if this is true... I wonder what Pokemon Rainbow means...
According to this leaker, we wouldn't be getting a Pokemon Z, but instead, a Pokemon Rainbow o_O. EDIT: Granted this is a codename. It could still be called Z lol. Also, this would mean that its a fall game, possibly the 3DS's swansong before the NX.
Normally I'd call BS on this, but leaking on Neogaf is pretty different than other sites. If you get caught lying there, you end up getting permabanned! So I mean, for all we know this could be someone account suicide, but I'd put this as more credible than the average rumor at least, especially considering this site's track record with accurate leaks.
Now if this is true... I wonder what Pokemon Rainbow means...
Obviously this doesn't really confirm anything as we all (well, at least I did) expected a Autumn/Fall release regardless. I was expecting something a bit bigger than "Fall Release date". Nintendo tends to announce its Autumn line up in March/April time (at least that's what I remember from the last few years); which means we might only have to wait another 6~8 weeks before we get proper news about the future of the franchise.
Let's keep it to the point people, you can have a little speculation about what this may be, but let's not go OTT with it please.
If it's true and definitely a 20th anniversary game then I see no reason it wouldn't be announced on the anniversary this weekend. They would do right to tie its reveal to the anniversary it's meant to celebrate. But I think a game announcement will happen on Pokemon Day regardless of what it is though.
Anyway guess we shouldn't buy into it too much, but I think the weekend will decide its fate.
Assuming the leak is real, it's pretty explicit in saying "Pokemon 20th anniversary game" so I wouldn't expect it to be a Kalos game. It would/will probably be something different. I doubt it would be a sole Kalos game anyway; it might have us doing something like tripping around the Pokemon world, who knows.
Anyway guess we shouldn't buy into it too much, but I think the weekend will decide its fate.
Ssssh don't
Urgh, this "20th Anniversary game" aka "Rainbow" is making me shudder at the impending hype that it will be an "all-regions" game, lol.
Rainbow = all colours = all the games before XY to celebrate everything they've done up until now......
edit: LOL I didn't even see this before I posted:
Rainbow = all colours = all the games before XY to celebrate everything they've done up until now......
edit: LOL I didn't even see this before I posted:
it's started!
I wasn't saying that as a legitimate suggestion, I was making the point that if it's specifically being tied to the anniversary and as an anniversary game it isn't going to just turn out to be the final Kalos game - it will instead be something different and unique. So you can chill dude. It seems more likely it might be tied to the Strange Souvenir if its inclusion in XY is actually to come of anything. But this is getting real waist deep in speculation now.
Well, wait. Rainbow is a color. The only regions that have color names are Kanto and Unova. I'm betting it might be one super remake of Red/Blue/Yellow/Green. But now we're really theorymonning. Thanks Theorymon (Irony is delicious, isn't it?)
There's Gold and Silver too. I don't think it will be a remake though, assuming it's a real leak.
Didn't mean to come across as a personal attack or anything, just an example of how the idea has already popped up.
Rainbow is not a (singular) colour. And all the gen 1-5 games are named after colours (well there are some shades and Diamond / Platinum are admittedly a stretch) so Rainbow would be a fitting - albeit corny - name for the fabled all-region game.
But anyway, I think it's extremely unlikely such a game would be released, if the leak is true then it'll just be a code name. If Z is the 20th anniversary release then maybe it will just have a heap of nostalgic throwbacks during the story, or maybe coz AZ is so old we'll get a whole lot of backstory on the Pokemon world (like maybe he witnessed the Kanto War, Kyogre / Groudon fighting, Giratina being summoned or the Original Dragon or whatever.... I dunno, I almost don't want some throwback game to be made at all because I'm so desperate for something new!
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